That is why I wondering if they were the same thing or nor. I here rose of sharon and hibiscus used together. I have a friend who has a rose of sharon that is about 10 feet high, blossoms every year. It is a shrub like tree???
I would like to have one as well but I need to know what I going after first.

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Rosie wrote:That is why I wondering if they were the same thing or nor. I here rose of sharon and hibiscus used together. I have a friend who has a rose of sharon that is about 10 feet high, blossoms every year. It is a shrub like tree???I would like to have one as well but I need to know what I going after first.

Hi Rosie, Rose of Sharon is a shrub.

Scarborough,Ont. Zone 6A LorraineSuburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ~Bill Vaughn

Rose of Sharon is I believe in the same family, but not at all like a Hardy Hibiscus.

The Rose of Sharon is a deciduous tree or shrub. the hardy hibiscus is a Perennial in the correct zones. I chop mine down to the ground every year, and it comes back from the base.

It's entirely possible that yours actually didn't die, you just didn't cut it back and wait long enough for the new growth. I almost pulled mine out the first year, as it wasn't until late June that it was doing anything.

Here's a Rose of Sharon, mine is only two years old and could get to be about 12' high depending on how we prune it. It's on the far right in the front, in front of the white petunia's.

Here's the Hibiscus, it's right behind the Hosta. You can see my hosts have come back nicely, as have the spiderworts, and really no sign of the Hibiscus, aside from the maple weed coming out of the middle hehe.

More then likely it did survive, but took too long to come back in the spring and got dug up.

I almost dug mine up the first 2 years, I had to fight with hubby. It dies down to the ground each year, and takes forever to sprout in the spring, you can see from my pics, the hosta's and spiderwort's were already doing well, and no sign of the Hibiscus.